[FLASHBACK] Green card lottery, a ticket to hope for many,could be eliminated

Washington Post ^ | May 12, 2013 | By Pamela Constable

[Oldeconomybuyer]

In the contentious debate over immigration policy, three groups have dominated public and political attention: the roughly 11 million undocumented immigrants seeking to become legal, the skilled foreign workers bound for high-tech jobs and relatives waiting to be reunited with their families.

Then there are those who won the green card lottery.

Under a Senate compromise, the program would be eliminated and its visa slots would be subsumed into a broad system that stresses skills, education and other criteria for legal immigration.

A few defenders, including members of the Congressional Black Caucus, have urged that the lottery be preserved.

But senators who negotiated the proposed massive immigration change, which is being aired in a series of hearings, said the diversity program crumbled under Republican insistence on finding more visas for skill-based immigrants.

“I was an author of this program. I care about it,” Sen. Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.), a key negotiator, said during a recent televised panel. But he said that between Republican opposition and the sense that the lottery had strayed from its original purpose, “we decided we couldn’t continue it.”

The relatively lax requirements for lottery applications have also aroused concerns that it can allow terrorists to slip into the country. To be eligible, someone must be an adult from one of the listed countries, have a high school degree or two years’ work experience, and have no criminal record.

In 2002, an Egyptian terrorist who shot and killed two people in Los Angeles was found to be in the United States through his wife’s diversity visa. Mohamed Atta, another Egyptian and one of the Sept. 11 pilots who died attacking the World Trade Center, had applied twice for the lottery before entering the United States on a different visa to study aviation.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

So why is this insane program still active?

[Lurkinanloomin]

This program does not benefit Americans.
ALL immigration should benefit Americans.
Our Congress is always more concerned about foreigners.

[posterchild]

It was always a bad idea. It is inherently un-American as it judges the applicant based on nation of origin and ancestry rather than as an individual.

[marron]

I have a friend who came in through this program. He is a good guy, well educated, talented.

He is the kind of guy who would have been accepted (after a lot of red tape) through normal channels.

I think the lottery is insane. If they continue the lottery, it should be limited to people who would have been accepted anyway.

Seriously, the only people who should be considered for immigrant status are people who love us and want to be us... and have something valuable to offer the rest of us, some talent, some ability. Immigration policy should always serve the interests of citizens first, foremost, always.

[Cheerio]

Worshiping at the alter of DIVERSITY and POLITICAL CORRECTNESS is the undoing of this once great proud nation. Assimilation is practically nonexistent in so many once great American cities - e.g. Los Angles (Mexicans), Detroit (Muzzies), Minneapolis/St Paul (Muzzies) etc.

[yoe]

Cotton and Perdue Introduce the Reforming American Immigration for a Strong Economy Act....August 2, 2017

Cotton: Diversity Lottery Is a Threat to Our National Security
November 1, 2017

Contact: Caroline Rabbitt Tabler (202) 224-2353 Washington, D.C. - Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) today released the following statement on the revelation that the man who committed yesterday's terrorist attack in New York City came to the U.S. through the notoriously flawed diversity visa lottery program:

"Yesterday's attack was an outrage, especially because it was entirely preventable. The diversity visa lottery program has long been deeply flawed, but now we see very clearly how it's a threat to our national security. Senator Perdue and I have been working with our colleagues to eliminate this program, and this latest revelation makes our efforts only more urgent. I call upon my colleagues to pass the RAISE Act as soon as possible. We can't afford to wait any longer to fix our immigration system."

Urge your elected to help pass Senator Cotton's (Raise Act).

[McGavin999]

I’m confused here. It says it was ended but the State Dept website says it’s active.

[monkeybrau]

If you look at comments from 2013 from these people lamenting that the diversity lottery might go away (it didn’t), there is this gem from ‘oldAhmed’:

oldahmed
5/14/2013 5:45 AM MDT
The majority of comments here are based on ignorance. The DV lottery ssystem is not a random selection of immigrant. The potential immigrant, after being random;y selected, have to prove they have a matketable university degree (based on the department of Labor point system), a clean background check, and a sponsor from the US so not to rely on public assistance. Stop making ignorant comments.

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[Yosemitest]

BLAME OBAMA !

Pay attention to just HOW MUCH the ILLEGAL ALIEN IN CHIEF and his IRANIAN SPY HATES CHRISTIANS !

This stinking piece of crap that's defiling our Oval Office is importing the Radical Islamists that will kill us.
When will congress get the guts to IMPEACH, CONVICT and EXECUTE that ILLEGAL ALIEN IN CHIEF ?

ALERT: Obama Busted Importing Jihad Into America [VIDEO (Fox News) ]

U.S. CITIES 'SECRETLY SELECTED' FOR IMPORTING MUSLIMS

SPREAD THIS: Is Your Hometown on Obama’s “Secret List” for Importing Muslims? [FULL LIST]

Department of State; Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration Office of Admissions - Refugee Processing Center Affiliate Directory

Read this article that exposes FACTS about Obama at Occidental College in 1981:

OBAMA'S RING: 'THERE IS NO GOD BUT ALLAH'
He's worn band on wedding-ring finger since BEFORE he met Michell !

Also, don't forget this:

Up to 34 MILLION blank 'green cards' and work permits to be ordered ahead of Obama illegal immigrant 'amnesty'
20 October 2014 | UPDATED: 28 October 2014

I'll bet the ILLEGAL ALIEN IN CHIEF and his IRANIAN SPY are intending on EVERY ONE OF THEM to be used for importing a RADICAL ISLAMIC TERRORIST !

UNHCR data confirms it: 75% of the so-called refugees arriving in Europe are MEN.

Invasion of Europe news….



We mentioned recently that it appears from some photos that the invaders of Europe are mostly fighting age young men.

The UN High Commissioner for Refugees does not tell us their ages, but does tell us that 75% are men. (Germans hide your daughters!)

Only 51% are Syrians, the rest are from all over the Middle East and Africa.

So, did the men abandon their women and children back home (in an unsafe country)?

[G Larry]

>http://charltonteaching.blogspot.com/2014/07/diversity-destruction.html<

...Diversity is an anti-religion, and anti-ideology, a nepotism which promotes everything except one’s own family. 

Diversity therefore equals the destruction of any and all religions and of all positive ideologies.

Because Diversity can only be destructive: whatever IS is insufficiently or inexactly diverse. 
Whatever IS must therefore be destroyed in order to make it MORE Diverse. 
And there is no conceivable or measurable end to it. Yesterday’s Diversity is today’s intolerable lack of Diversity.

Diversity is the destruction of Good; and it is the destruction of all types of Good - however defined. All are chewed up and spat out by Diversity.

Diversity is the promotion of chaos by the destruction of Good; and then there-naming of chaos as Good.

[puppypusher]

We can only hope the lottery is killed.The immigration system is designed to help build a strong American economy.Not to create a suicide pact with third world savages who have nothing to offer Other than to go on the public safety net.

Only American Citizens should be on that safety net.We have enough of our own poor.

[Buckeye Battle Cry]

Why is it the job of the United States to grant these “hopes of many”? What valid reason? Just one.